Melissa Etheridge | 
 enlarge | Artist: Melissa Etheridge
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 78935
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 46 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 842303
UPC: 042284230322
EAN: 0042284230322
ASIN: B000001FSC
Release Date: May 11, 1988
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| Tracks:
| • | Similar Features | | • | Chrome Plated Heart | | • | Like The Way I Do | | • | Precious Pain | | • | Don't You Need | | • | The Late September Dogs | | • | Occasionally | | • | Watching You | | • | Bring Me Some Water | | • | I Want You |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Her best album by a mile - but buy the DELUXE edition instead! May 11, 2008
Steven Roberts (UK)
Melissa Etheridge's debut album was, with the benefit of hindsight, also to prove her best. And by some distance - Brave & Crazy was a disappointing sophomore release, and the third album, Never Enough, was poorer still.
But this album...this was a cracker. So good, in fact, that you if you are thinking of getting it, then you should really try and seek out the 2 CD deluxe edition. For your extra pennies you'll get better packaging and an essay on the making of the album, not to mention 5 bonus acoustic tracks (previously available only as 12" B-sides), and a period live show of all the songs from the album.
Pretty much the only Melissa Etheridge album any collection really needs.
 THE FIRST MELISSA I EVER OWNED AND THE BEST January 13, 2008
L. J. Giddings (Greece)
If you have never owned a Melissa Etheridge album and want to try her music; this is the one.
If I could only have one album; this is the one.
Late September Dogs; possibly the most haunting song in the world.
Like the way I do; if you have ever been dumped for another then this is what you need to sing along to.
Buy it. Buy it. Buy it.
Therapy for the broken-hearted. January 13, 2001
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
One day someone smart will get rich very quick by releasing the bestselling compilation album "Best Divorce Songs In The World Ever - Part 1", and that person will have the terrible dilemma of which Melissa Etheridge track to choose from this album. Passionate, honest and so raw the CD bleeds, this album is a must-have for the broken-hearted. It's one to stay in to, hair unwashed, stereo cranked up so loud you can't even hear the neighbours knocking, with half a bottle of red wine already down and the rest not about to last long. What makes this album such good therapy, and for my money infinitely better than the recent "Breakdown", is its painfully real modulation between moods, and the sheer intensity of emotion expressed. The furious jealousy of "Like The Way I Do" is excoriating in its intense rhetorical questioning, "does she stimulate you?/attract and captivate you?", only to be completely undermined - wholly realistically - by the deflated resignation of the repeated "like the way I do". This rocks, as does the painful immolation of "Bring Me Some Water" in which the spurned lover screams out to anyone who will listen "somebody bring me some water/can't you see I'm burning alive?" These are tracks for Home Alone karaoke and some very therapeutic rock-chick air guitar - yeah, girls do it too... A bit of therapeutic raging is good for the soul, but this album also has tracks so still at their centre that you can actually hear your heart hurting. On "Occasionally", Etheridge's voice is accompanied only by percussion, emphasising the acute isolation of the lyric as the speaker repeatedly and with painfully obvious irony asserts that she is "only" lonely in a whole list of different contexts. "Watching You" bleeds from the self-inflicted lacerations of being completely unable to let that ex go. I cry every time... Listening to this album is a full-on virtual reality experience of the excruciating agony of lost love, but one that was at least worth something. How terribly Romantic.
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